Tennessee 3rd District debate in a vacuum - Chattanooga Times Free Press
22 May 2012, 9:30 pm
Each reasonably criticized Mayfield's recent statements in which he fatuously charged that recipients of Medicaid (TennCare in Tennessee) were "non-taxpayers," and said that Medicaid should be abolished and its medical mission given to churches and charities.

Extreme Indolence: On the Fiction of Albert Cossery - Nation
21 May 2012, 6:54 pm
Reading of his heroes’ delight in their poverty, I couldn’t help thinking of the obtuse television producer in Terry Gilliam’s The Fisher King, fatuously pumping a sitcom about the happy-go-lucky homeless. How many of those have you met lately?

Spain's Year of Miracles - huffingtonpost.co.uk
20 May 2012, 4:39 pm
all these episodes tended to be ignored or marginalized as writers and politicians celebrated Columbus as a pioneer of globalization and a herald of the media age - as the former head of the Prisa media group Jesus de Polanco fatuously described him.

The Art of the Impersonator - nybooks.com
17 May 2012, 6:34 am
or wistful. Others might be wary, enraged, or fatuously oblivious of their effect on others (or so her crooners seem). But then, in the 1980s, she appeared in unsettling fairy-tale scenes, where she might be a sweaty, furtive creature with a snout ...

Trentonian Editorial: Inside joke - Trentonian
14 May 2012, 5:26 am
The Santorums of the world fatuously believe, apparently, that if gay marriage is legalized, millions of heterosexuals will start saying, “Gee, maybe I’ll marry somebody of the same sex now that it’s legal.” Marriage already is a social ...

Kevin Myers: The Special Criminal Court had inadvertently enabled two dedicated terrorists to return to their trade - Independent
11 May 2012, 10:44 am
Quite so. Now all this was possible because the Special Criminal Court, by statute of Dail Eireann, operated on evidential rules that were too fatuously querulous, too quibbling, to cope with the evil realities of a terrorist war. O'Hare and McElvanna shot ...

The 1924 Nemasket Worsted Mill Weavers' Strike - South Coast Today
10 May 2012, 11:07 am
In his own defense, Egger somewhat fatuously argued that had he not sold to the company, another dealer would have. His more telling statement — "I do not know even what the strike is for" — was revealing and likely indicative of the views ...